Piolo Pascual and Jasmine Curtis-Smith talked about their movie
A-list actor Piolo Pascual and Kapuso actress Jasmine Curtis-Smith shared their thoughts on their roles in the movie Real Life Fiction.
Award-winning filmmaker Paul Soriano wrote and directed this movie and the story is focused on the character of Paco played by Piolo. Jasmine’s character in the movie is also an actress. Paco is an actor in the movie who tried to write and direct a film in which he will portray the main character.
Piolo’s character extremely embraces method acting to create the story he has in mind to the point that it is not easy for him to go back to reality.
Based on the article in PEP, Piolo Pascual said that this is a very interesting concept. “You know as actors, I guess it’s your responsibility to take on roles that you haven’t played yet and taken on,” the actor said.
Piolo also said that this movie is a precursor to Paul’s 40th birthday and the director just wanted to write something about life in general. The actor said that he somehow related to it. He also appreciated the fact that Paul wanted to do something different and not just the typical romantic comedy movie.
Piolo also mentioned that he and Paul just wanted to work with each other. The actor also shared that he used method acting almost all the time. It is a good thing that it was during the pandemic when they filmed this movie, so it was easy for them to be in touch with their characters easily.
“It’s just so easy for me to allow myself to become Paula as well because it’s so close to reality,” Jasmine shared.
When asked if it was easy for them to snap out of their characters, Piolo said that it was a good thing that they wore different hats as artists that helped them move on from a certain character.
He shared an example. After he did the movie Mallari in which he played a dark character, Piolo was told by their director to take a vacation to shake his character off. The next day he was rehearsing for a concert which is far different from what he did in the movie.
“It’s easy to shake it off because we’re so consumed with a lot of things that we have to do as artists,” Piolo Pascual said.